Big Cheers and Happy 25th Birthday To Mac! Apple was in its infancy when the company, started in a Northern California garage by friends Steve Wozniak and Jobs, brought the first Mac to market on Jan 24, 1984.
Here is a chronology of Mac that I would like to share with you guys. Just some interesting facts and history about Mac and frankly speaking, I wasn’t even born yet when the first Mac came out! Good news?
Jan 24 , 1984: First Mac marketed. An all-in-one design, with a built-in 9 inch black and white monitor, an 8MHz processor, 128Kb of RAM and a single 400Kb floppy drive. Nothing else looked like this!
1986: MacPlus. Significant improvement over the original Mac. The MacPlus had 1MB of RAM which could be increased to 4MB. It has a SCSI port which allowed devices like external hard drives and printers to be added. It also came with a new floppy drive that could read 800Kb diskettes.
1987: Macintosh II and Mac SE. The Macintosh II line was the first break from the all-in-one Macs that came before. It has six NuBus expansion slots for video or network cards.
1989: Macintosh Portable. Apple’s first attempt at a laptop but at over 7kg (LOL), so it was not as portable as its name implied huh…
1991: PowerBook. The PowerBook 100 and 140 models were Apple’s first real portables, tipping the scales at about 2.3kg. It shipped with System 7, Apple’s first multi-tasking operating system.
1994: PowerMacs. After 10 years of using Motorola’s 68000 microprocessors, Apple switched to PowerPC chips made by Motorola and IBM for faster speed and performance.
1998: iMac. Apple returned to its roots with the all-in-one iMacs. The first iMacs came out in translucent blue which sparked off a fad for blue consumer applicances. By the following year, the iMac were available in bright cheerful colours like tangerine and grape.
2000: G4 Cube. Encased in perspex and designed to look like it was floating above the desk, the 8 inch Cube was beautiful but suffered sales-wise because it was too expensive compared to alternative offerings by Apple.
2001: OS X. Apple released OS X (Pronounced 10, not ‘X’). The Unix-based operating system provided Mac users with the features needed by a modern operating system.
2002: New iMac. Resembling the product of a marriage between a flat screen monitor and a desk lamp, Apple’s new iMac had a flat panel display attached by an arm to a semi-spherical base. This iMac was another effort by Apple to rethink its all-in-one offering.
2005: Mac Mini. Looking like a flatter, less stylish Cube, the Mac Mini is Apple’s offering for those looking for an entry level Mac. Much cheaper than the Cube, it found its deserved success!
2006: Move to Intel. Apple left the PowerPC platform for Intel’s Core Du processors citing Intel’s better performance and road map.
2008: Macbook Air. The Macbook Air is just orgasmic, pardon me for my language. But if you ever come across or own one, you know what I mean! Less than 2cm thick, the Air weighs just 1.36kg.
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Apple is a legend, and their re-emergence has been nothing but legendary either. I feel that the iMac proved to be the big turnaround for them on the computing front, whilst the iPod has really turned their fortunes around.
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I guess it was a huge improvement for them, especially their outlook..
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Happy Birthday Mac! Hopefully we’re going to be seeing another 25 years of innovations and quality from them.
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Nice to see you here Chris. Yeah hope so!
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Wow this really brings me back!! I remember the first Mac, my first 486 PC, as well as the Commodore 64!! Ahh the good old days!!
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Really? Are you still using mac now?
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my first computer was the apple box, i loved it, had the best word document on there that i used for my science class in school.
if anything i prefer a mac but the world is full of windows, and i’ve been taught to use windows that it seems weird to use the mac at times. but if anything the revolution itself deserves it’s own page.
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Mac is getting its stage in the world now..
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I still have the receipt where i paid $1,200.00 for my first 286/16 with 1 MEG of ram.. not gig hahah crazy how things have changed..
i’ve never sat in front of a Mac… maybe i will someday!
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Huh so cheap?
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Hi Ben,
I do like Apple but it expensive, but it seems faster and more reliable than a conventional PC. And less worries about viruses. I may save some money to buy myself one. I think your french can be excused, it happens when you are in front of a totally new Macbook Air.
Luis
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Lol yeah… Apple has cool outlook, cool graphics..
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Ben,
I have never used Apple computers but the iPod is great!
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Yeah I love apple’s hardware.. amazing!
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I have always used a PC, but when fighting with viruses I often think of switching to a MAC.
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As I recall, the Mac went on sale on January 24, 1984. I still have the one I bought on January 30, and as far as I know, it still works. I think I’ll dig it out and fire it up tomorrow.
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I have just found this site and its filled with some great information.
I have to say that when I was a kid I think that our first computer was an Apple, wow can you believe it that they have been around already for 25 years, where does time fly too?
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